DDI Lifecycle (3.3) Technical Guide

Table of contents

• About
  • Copyright & Licence
    • Licence
    • Attribution
    • Notices
  • Contacting Us
  • Contributors
    • Technical Committee (TC)
    • Past Members and Invited Experts
    • Substantive Working Group Members
    • DDI Alliance Members
• Overview
  • Using the DDI Model
    • Prototype Serializations of the Model
  • Using the HTML Field Level Documentation
  • Change Log
    • Summary of Additions
    • Summary of Changes
• Relationship to Other Standards
  • DDI Codebook (DDI-C) and earlier versions
  • Dublin Core and MARC
  • GSIM (Generic Statistical Information Model)
  • ISO/IEC 11179
  • ISO 19115 - Geography
  • Statistical Data and Metadata eXchange
  • Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS)
  • PREMIS
  • XHTML Tags Support by DDI
    • Block Elements
    • Inline Elements
    • List Elements
    • Table Elements
    • Unsupported Elements
• Structural Features
  • Exchange structures
  • Maintainable structures
    • Modules
    • Schemes
  • Scheme Groups
  • Organizing Publication Package Contents
    • Sequence of ResourcePackage, Group, and StudyUnit
    • Maintainable Modules, Choice of Inline or by Reference
    • Maintainable DDI Schemes, Inline Only
  • Managing Metadata Over Time
  • Versioning
• General Structures
  • Identification
    • Scope of Uniqueness
    • Type of Identifier
    • Structure of the URN
  • Identifiable, Versionable, and Maintainable
    • Identifiable
    • Versionable
    • Maintainable
  • Modules and Schemes
    • Reference and Scheme Reference Type
  • Administrative and Payload Metadata
• Common Structures
  • DDI Instance and DDI Fragments
  • Strings
  • Citation and Coverage
  • Dates
    • Usage
    • Examples
  • Name, Label, and Description
    • Name
    • Label
    • Description
  • Notes
  • User Attribute Pairs
  • In / Out Parameter, Binding and Command Code
    • InParameter, OutParameter, Binding
    • Command Code
  • Quality Descriptions
    • Metadata Quality
    • Quality Statement
    • Data Quality
• Specific Structures
  • Administration
  • Comparison
  • Data Capture
    • Questions
    • ControlConstructs
    • Other
  • Data Description
    • Represented Variable
  • Foundational
  • Geographic
  • Grouping
  • Schemes
  • Statistical Classification
  • Study
    • Archive
    • Group
    • StudyUnit
  • Survey Development
    • Sampling
    • Data Capture Development
    • Weighting
• Examples
  • Archive
  • Citation
  • Dates
  • In / Out Parameter, Binding
  • Note
  • Quality Statement
  • Questionnaire Development
  • Questions
  • Representations
  • Represented Variable
  • Sampling
  • Statistical Summary
  • Weighting